Tiny Tower Review

Tiny Tower first and foremost is an adorable and cute looking Freemium game.  In the game you are given a new plot of land and begin to build your tower.  Much like other games such as Farmville the game is about putting time and dedication into your business to reap the cash rewards, to then build an even bigger business.  In this respect Tiny Tower is no different, however unlike Farmville and other older Freemium games, Tiny Tower is fun and engaging. 

In the game you own your tower and get involved with what goes on in your tower. The tower is made up of businesses and apartments.  Within this tower you control the elevator that allows people to move into your tower block.  Once moved in you can put them straight to work in your businesses, in return for coins.  These coins then allow you to build more apartments, businesses or good for your shops to sell.  The new floors you build will have a random business from one type generated, so for instance, if you was to build a Food floor it could be a Mexican Foods place, a Sub Bar, a Pub, a sushi bar or plenty more.  It is this random element that makes every tiny tower unique, your tower will never look the same as your friends.

The art style helps keep you involved.  Even when there is nothing to do you can spend your time looking at all of your little bitizens in your tower, each of which has a distinctive look thanks to the huge amount of hats, funny glasses, beards and shirts that are available within the game.  If at any point these get too boring you can also repaint your rooms and change the clothes of your bitizens.

These bitizens also have desires and ambition, they all have certain skills and some are better in different work places to others and every bitizen has an ideal job.  There is also a menu oftion entitles BB, a reference to Facebook but in game called Bitbook, which your bitizns post their feelings and thoughts.  For example one rather vagrant-like looking chap in my tower longs to work in a woman’s fashion shop, sadly I do not have one so he just has to work in the pub..  Another tenant within my tower loves his job in the Soda Factory but he is always posting on Bitbook about his furry boas and playing golf on the roof.  It is these little details that make the game so absorbing and just keep you coming back to it.

Within the tower you keep your buisnesses going by stocking them with goods, bought with the in game coins that you earn through selling goods or dropping off people in the lift.  Once you have ordered your goods you have to wait a certain amount of time before you can stock the shops, rather like Farmville's crops.  Once stocked the shops then ell the goods to passers by allowing you to gain a gradual leak of income back from your purchase.  Once a shop has sold out of everything they close and the income will stop coming in, so the more you play the more you will earn.

If you are impatient you can speed things up by using the games other currency called Tower Bux.  These can be used to speed up anything from building, to stocking, to selling and can also be used to force tenants into apartments and even by a new elevator increasing its speed.   Thankfully unlike Farmville these bucks can be earnt quite easily with persistance through dropping people off in the lift to the right floor or helping find certain people in the tower, give someone their dream job and you will get 3 Bux.  However if this is not enough for you you can also purchase them within the game for real money.

Depite all of the hard work and time the game is very rewarding and incredibly addictive.  If you were hooked on Farmvillemaybe it is best if you steer clear of this, as in Tiny Tower you are rewarded for the time you spend on it.  The longer you spend on the game the greater the likely hood of mini-games and V.I.Ps visiting your Tower, who help reduce the times of building, selling and even increase the amount of people that visit your shops. 

Even though Tiny Tower is like Farmville it would be a disservice to compare the two as Tiny Tower is far superior in terms of actual interaction with the game, it is no longer about twiddling your fingers and waiting for your collection, instead you can keep busy and active whilst waiting for your money to come in.

Tiny Tower is the best of its genre so far and is well worth the time and is a must for anyone with an ipod or iphone.  It does lack the interaction between players but maybe that is something that will be introduced down the line.  Despite this it is still very absorbing, so watch yourself or you will find your days disappearing into your little bitizens!